As the interest in using policy-based approaches for systems management grows, it is becoming increasingly important to develop methods for performing analysis and refinement of p...
Arosha K. Bandara, Emil Lupu, Jonathan D. Moffett,...
Assume-guarantee reasoning has long been advertised as an important method for decomposing proof obligations in system veri cation. Re nement mappings (homomorphisms) have long bee...
Thomas A. Henzinger, Shaz Qadeer, Sriram K. Rajama...
Symbolic reasoning is a well understood and effective approach to handling reasoning over formally represented knowledge; however, simple symbolic inference systems necessarily sl...
Matthew E. Taylor, Cynthia Matuszek, Pace Reagan S...
tract State Machines to Concurrent Transaction Logic Dumitru Roman1 , Michael Kifer2 , and Dieter Fensel1 1 STI Innsbruck, Austria 2 State University of New York at Stony Brook, US...
Automated problem solving is viewed typically as the expenditure of computation to solve one or more problems passed to a reasoning system. In response to each problem received, e...